The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-03
PICKING AN OIL MILL SITE
THE SOUTHERN COMPANY TO
BUILD IN SAVANNAH.

The Probable Site for tho Works at the
Central and Charleston and Savan-
nah Railway Junction--Their Cost to
be $4,000 and Their Capacity
10000 Tons of Cotton Seed Per
Year.
Fred Oliver, manager of the Southern
Cotton Oil Company, is expected in Savan-
nah in a day or two TO definitely locate the
site for the cotton seed oil mill which the
company is to erect here.
Mr.. Oliver passed through Savannah sew
eral days ago and while here hurriedly ex-
Rmined a number of sites. The one which
the company prefers is OH the Louisville
road at the junction of the Central railroad
and Charleston and Savannah railway.
PROBABLE SITE OF THE MILL,
The land upon which the mill will be built,
If the site is definately settled upon, is south
of the Central'S tracks and north of the
Louisville road The strip of land is not
wide enough however, for the companyS
buildings and side tracks unless the high
way is moved further south. The County
Commissioners have been asked TO change
the road, but the matter has not yet been
acted upon.
The Central, whose right of way extends
from It's tracks to the highway has offered
To donate sufficient land for the location of
the mill. Mr. Oliver held a conference
with Gen. Alexander during his last visit
here and with Mr. Lewis HASKELL who is to
be the company'S local manager, and the
matter of a site was carefully considered,
but nothing definite was determined upon.
OTHER SITES TALKED OF
Another site near the Vale Royal mills
was looked into, and still another north of
the Central railroad and taking in part of
the old Fair Grounds. The site at the
Charleston and Savannah junction. being
convenient to all the roads centering here,
is considered the most desirable.
The capacity of the Savannah mill will
be about the same as that OF the other mills
which the company viii build in the South,
and viii be about $50 tons Each of the eight
mills which are TO be built will cost Sl25,-
0G0. They viii grind SO, coo tons of cotton
seed per annum at an expense, the company
claims, of 81 per ton less than the Oil Trust
can do it. A full manufacturing plant will
be connected with the mill
THE soUTHERT OIL COMPANY
The Southern Cotton Oil Company, as it
Is called, was organized in New Jersey. It's
capital is 81, 100000 of which 81, 900, 900 has
been taken, and S1,00O.000 is re-
served. The officers are Henry G. Butch
er, President; Richard Arnold, of New York,
Weep President; Fred Oliver, Charlotte, n c.,
manager: ID. A. Tompkins, Charlotte, en-
gineer, and W. G.. Kay, assistant engineer.
The mills which are to be built in the
South will be at Atlanta, New Orleans, Mont
gomery, Memphis, Dallas Houston, Little
Rock and Savannah The location of the
Atlanta mill has already been settled upon,
and work will be begun in a short time.
THE CENTRAL RAILROADS CONTRACT.
The Central Railroad has entered
into a contract with the company
to haul its products, and as soon as the
location of the mill here is determined the
work of erecting the buildings will be COM
menced. The machinery has already been
ordered.
The Southern company is organized in
opposition to the American Oil Trust. With
new and improved machinery and pro-
cesses it expects to produce oil at from. 80
TO "a less per ton than the Trust They
average from 80 to'S5 gallons of oil to the
ton of seed, and the new company expects to
make Is gallons TO the ton, and besides it
viii produce a superior cotton meal.
OPPOSITION TO THE OIL TRUST
Not only does tine new company expect to
make oil cheaper, but it expects to produce
as much oil by its outlay of 81, 500, 900 as
the Oil Trust, which was capitalized at $40
100000. With these advantages the new
company expects to compete with the oppo-
sition and make 100 per cent. profit
The establishment of mill here by a COM
pany as strongly backed as the Southern Oil
Company is understood to be is an important
thing foI. Savannah